Dohnanyi / Janacek - Violin Sonatas
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67699
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 29th March 2010
Contents
Works
Ruralia Hungarica for violin and piano, op.32cSuite for Orchestra, op.19
Allegro, JXIX/9
Dumka, JWVII/4
On an Overgrown Path (A blown-away leaf) (arr. J Stedron)
Romance no.4, JWVII/3
Violin Sonata
Artists
Hagai Shaham (violin)Arnon Erez (piano)
Works
Ruralia Hungarica for violin and piano, op.32cSuite for Orchestra, op.19
Allegro, JXIX/9
Dumka, JWVII/4
On an Overgrown Path (A blown-away leaf) (arr. J Stedron)
Romance no.4, JWVII/3
Violin Sonata
Artists
Hagai Shaham (violin)Arnon Erez (piano)
About
Dohnányi was one of the pivotal figures in Hungary’s musical life. He composed a number of significant pieces for the violin, including two violin concertos. His most important chamber work for violin and piano is the Violin Sonata in C sharp minor Op 21, composed in 1912. Dohnányi was by then thirty-five years of age, and the Sonata is a fully mature work showing his individual development of stylistic traits of Brahms and Liszt, combined with a structural economy which reflects the close study of Brahms’s sonatas. Also recorded here is Dohnányi’s most overtly folk-influenced work, Ruralia hungarica, and a movement from his First Orchestral Suite, in F sharp minor Op 19: Romanza, arranged as a thoroughly idiomatic piece for violin and piano by Jascha Heifetz.
In the first days of World War I, Dohnányi’s native Hungary was invaded by the Russian army, which seemed for a time to herald the end of Austrian dominance in the region. This portentous event provided the creative spark for Leoš Janácek’s Violin Sonata (his only surviving violin sonata - two very early ones he composed in Dresden and Vienna in 1880 are lost), at least according to Janácek himself. Other works by Janácek heard in this recital include early pieces from his student years, and an arrangement of the delicate mood study ‘A blown-away Leaf’ from the celebrated piano work On the Overgrown Path.
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